UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



IN 



ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 301-310; pis. 20-21 September 20, 191 1 



NOTES ON SOME CEPHALOPODS IN THE 



COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY 



OF CALIFORNIA 



BY 



S. S. BEREY 



The following notes have to do with certain squids and devil- 

 fishes preserved in the collections of the Department of Zoology 

 at the Univer.sity of California. Only those from Californian 

 and Alaskan waters are included. The chief sources of material 

 have been the various expeditions and summer seaside labora- 

 tories conducted by the University in the southern part of the 

 state and from the Marine Biological Station at La Jolla. While 

 no especial search was maintained for cephalopods and no new 

 species have come to light, nevertheless, from a standpoint of 

 distribution and variation, the collection contains considerable 

 material of interest. Most of the localities represented are 

 southern. IMonterey Bay, however, has contributed the interest- 

 ing specimen of Dosidicns. The thirty-one specimens recorded 

 are referable to but four species, three of which belong to the 

 genus Polypus. 



My thanks are due to Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, of 

 the rniversity of California, for placing the material at my dis- 

 posal, as well as kindly affording the facilities for its exam- 

 ination. 



Polypus bimaculatus (Verrill) 



Ucti>iiiis hi mac Hiatus Verrill (1883), p. 121, pi. 5, figs. 1-I(/, pi. b'. 

 Tills species is well represented in the collection, although 



